South Dakota Liberty News

Monday, September 28, 2026

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Your paycheck just padded lawmakers' pay

TAXES & SPENDING

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Rounds: USPS rigged numbers on your mail

'Wise investment': lawmakers want your yes on K

Who pays to keep the ambulance coming?

Feds' Pine Ridge storm fix: take a loan

Brass wants Sioux Falls cheering for F-35s

CITY HALL

Corn Palace tab hits $4.66 million... who pays?

Mitchell City Hall hack reaches employee data

After Smithfield: who controls the countryside?

Black Eagle plan clears Mitchell's first gate

Wanted: Rapid City sign judges

SCHOOLS

Pierre rewrites more of what kids learn

THE COURTS

Jackley makes prosecutors show their cards

Rural courts are running out of lawyers

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RICO suit hits Igloo bunker baron

THE STATEHOUSE

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Rhoden loosens truck limits as diesel bites

Election chief Johnson's views 'evolved'

South Dakota votes earlier every year

What voters actually want from Pierre

NATIONAL NEWS

PODCAST

George Washington in 2026: Winning Liberty Is Only the Beginning

Grover Norquist: Why the Fight for Lower Taxes Is Really a Fight for Liberty Naomi Brockwell: The Fight to Take Back Your Digital Privacy Topher Field: Why Good People Break Bad Laws Peter Lipsett: Leadership, Philanthropy, and Building a Stronger Liberty Movement

STORIES

Liberty at Home Requires Restraint Abroad Lawmakers Raised Their Own Pay. Then Raised Taxes on South Carolinians She Built Kentucky’s YAL Network From the Ground Up How Grassroots Activists Forced a Delay in a Surveillance Expansion Vote The Student Who Refused to Let His Chapter Die How Grassroots Organizing Changed Wyoming's Legislature Transparency Is the Foundation of Trust in Government

LIBERTY MOVEMENT

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Rand Paul Blocks His Own Party's DHS Bills^NEW

Woods Digs Into the Psychology of Tyranny

DUE PROCESS

Court Strips Immunity From Cops Over Bogus Stop^NEW

High School Admits Gun Search Was Illegal

SPEECH POLICE

FIRE Torches Trump's Media Ban

Trump Demands Axios Kill Iran Story^NEW

Florida Teacher Beats Charges Over Political Posts

In Tennessee, 'Recruiting' Talk Is Now a Crime^NEW

THE FED

Fed's Cook: AI Boom Will Feed Inflation^NEW

St. Onge: The Mortgage Prison the Fed Built

TAXES & REGULATION

The Tariff Bill Comes Due for the GOP

Trump's Park Entry Fee Lands in Court^NEW

Congress Muscles Into College Sports^NEW

Florida Asks Court to Freeze ChatGPT

GUN RIGHTS

NYT's AR-15 Coverage Gets Fact-Checked^NEW

WAR POWERS

Trump Dangles Sanctions Relief for Nuclear Concessions^NEW

Cornered Iran Moves to Ditch Nuke Treaty^NEW

Another Carrier Steams Toward the Gulf^NEW

Senate Gets Its Chance to End Israeli Impunity

Horton: Inside the Israel Lobby's 2026 Machine^NEW

EXECUTIVE OVERREACH

Hegseth Sends the Pentagon Into Your Elections^NEW

Trump Runs Campaign-Style Ads on Your Dime^NEW

Thune: Taxpayers Shouldn't Fund Trump's Message^NEW

THE SURVEILLANCE STATE

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Flock Camera Lies, Insured Driver Gets Ticket

EFF to SFPD: Your Drones Need a Leash^NEW

'The End of Privacy Is Here'

Humans Are Reading Your Copilot Prompts

FEDERAL FAILURE

Patel's FBI Bleeds Another Top Official

Hackers Sit on Massive FBI Employee Trove^NEW

Federal Courts Profit Off Your Public Records

Crackdown Guts Beef Belt, Slaughter Dives 16%^NEW

SPENDING & DEBT

Trump Cancels $810M, Senate Moves to Clip His Pen^NEW

Recession-Proof No More: The Swamp Feels the Squeeze

CRONY CAPITALISM

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Trump Plays Steel Czar With $15B Iowa Mill

Big Tech, Big Labor Link Arms on Data Centers

DOJ Rides to OpenAI's Rescue in Court^NEW

AI Panic and Regulatory Capture: Both Real

STATES PUSH BACK

Judge: Trump Can't Ransom States' Terror Funds^NEW

North Carolina's Free-Market Housing Fix^NEW